Florida’s agriculture commissioner asked the governor to open COVID-19 vaccinations to all farmworkers, noting they are “critical to producing safe, secure” food while being exposed to higher health risks during the pandemic.
Immigrant and Migrant Health
A reporter relfects on lessons learned while covering the mental health challenges confronting regufees in Buffalo, New York.
“Disasters have a way of exposing the most vulnerable among us, and putting them in harm’s way,” a local nonprofit leader told me.
Critics of the move to an age-based priority system say it defies evidence that workplace transmission is a major source of spread.
Los funcionarios de salud de San Francisco sabían desde fines de marzo de 2020, y ciertamente en abril, que la población latina estaba siendo afectada de manera desproporcionada por la epidemia del COVID-19 y, sin embargo, no tomaron medidas efectivas para abordar la crisis. Si bien las personas lat
"The virus is revealing the systemic neglect of the Latinx community and essential workforce in established health care pathways," two journalists write.
"The stress of my own personal experiences led me to dig deeper into how immigrant women were faring through the pandemic."
How are school systems coping with large influxes of immigrant children? A reporter reflects on lessons learned.
The high numbers indicate a continuing surge, researchers said.
California farmworkers have been hit especially hard by the virus, as they often live in overcrowded housing, travel in groups to work, and lack access to health insurance.